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Lived from 1276 to 1337.
A magnificent early realist painter.
A fly in one of Giotto's works looked so real that an observer tried to brush it off the painting. -
was a famous artist and teacher .
made poems for a girl named laura
art and literature -
Scholars believe that johannes Gutenburg of mainz , Germany, became the 1st Eurpean to use movable type to print books.
Printing helped spread Renaissance ideas. -
A florentine diplomat and historian that lived from 1469 to 1527.
Machiavelli can be considered a humanist because he looked to the ancient romans models. the lack of morality in "The Prince" , however, sets him apart from other humanists of the time. -
By 1475 printing press operated in England, France, Germany, Italy , and many other European nations. the books that these printing presses produced helped spread new humanist ideas to a large audience.
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An Italian diplomat
Lived from 1478 to1529 .
Wrote the book "The book of the courtier" -
Lived from 1488 to 1576.
spent most of his life in venice.
he wrote "The assumption of the virgin" its known for its sense of drama and rich colors .
The holy Roman emperor was a patron of Titian.
One of the 1st painters to become wealthy from his work. -
Written by Niccolo Machiavelli .
He sought to describe government not in terms of lofty ideals but in the way it actually worked .
He argued that a ruler should be concerned only with power and political success . -
probably the most famous book of the renaissance.
The setting for the book is the court at Urbino, an Italian city-state where Castiglione lived for many years .
In his book , he used real people engaged in fictional conversations to explain how gentlemen and women should act in polite society. -
the arno river in northern Italy flooded its banks and sent a torrent of water into the museums, cathedrals, and libriaries of the city in florence . Florence contained the worlds greatest store of renaissance art and literature .
